Robin Marx
Contributing Writer
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Robin Marx holds a Ph.D. in English with concentrations in contemporary poetry and creative writing. His interests also range to Romantic and Gothic literature, Medieval studies, and sci-fi/fantasy.
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Antiheroes & the Dramatic Monologue: Browning's Porphyria's Lover
Robert Browning's dramatic monologues are often spoken by anti-heroic narrators who are more than willing to take the reader along on their unseemly journey
Mar 2, 2011
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The Ruined Mind in "Fall of the House of Usher" and "The Raven"
Edgar Allan Poe was the master of the narrators-slipping-into-madness trope, showing that true fear lies not in haunted houses, but in haunted minds.
Feb 28, 2011
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Tragedy and Epiphany in James Dickey's "The Scarred Girl"
Through an examination of the tragic, James Dickey's poem "The Scarred Girl" serves as a window into epiphany.
Feb 26, 2011
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"Let him bowse an' deep carouse": The Scots Poetry of Celebration
A lighthearted look at Robert Burns' "Scotch Drink," "Address to a Haggis," and the revelrous side of 18th Century Scottish identity.
Feb 26, 2011
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William Blake's "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow"
When compared, William Blake's poems "Infant Joy" and "Infant Sorrow" from his Songs of Innocence and Experience give clues to the work's larger structure.
Feb 26, 2011
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Billy Collins' and Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
Article compares Wordsworth's original "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" with Billy Collins' contemporary response/parody.
Feb 26, 2011
- Robin Marx
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Perfection in John Keats' "Urn" & Seamus Heaney's "The Pitchfork"
John Keats' maxim "Truth is beauty, beauty truth" is explored in both "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Seamus Heaney's "The Pitchfork."
Feb 26, 2011
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The Symbol of the House Boat in Dickens' "David Copperfield"
Article explores some of the possible symbolism of Peggotty's houseboat in Charles Dickens' "David Copperfield."
Feb 26, 2011
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Sexual Hysteria in The Turn of the Screw
Beyond a simple ghost story, "The Turn of the Screw" can be seen as a study of sexual repression, hysteria, and hallucination.
Feb 21, 2011
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The "Ubi Sunt" in Beowulf and The Wanderer
The "Ubi Sunt," a motif of lamentation and elegy common in Medieval poetry, is examined by comparing its occurrences in Beowulf and The Wanderer.
Feb 20, 2011
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